Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster in the closet," says Richard Jones, a Connecticut attorney who represents mortgage lenders. "People's reaction is visceral. It has a very chilling effect...
...King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile alive...
...give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster of "competence" and computer-friendly conduct, Michael Dukakis...
...monster, a terrorist? Why? Who says that? I can't accept your saying it. George Washington was called a terrorist by the British. De Gaulle was called a terrorist by the Nazis. What can they say about the P.L.O., except to repeat this slogan? We are freedom fighters, and we are proud of it. According to international law and the United Nations Charter, I have the right to resist Israeli occupation. I don't want to harm anybody. But look how they are treating my people. These savage, barbarian, fascist practices against our children, our women...
...bother reaching for your calculator. To turn this 100-digit monster into its indivisible primes -- as in reducing 15 to the product of 3 and 5 -- would ordinarily require the undivided attention of a supercomputer for as long as two months. But last week the record-size problem was solved after just 26 days by a group of more than 50 smaller machines scattered across the U.S., Europe and Australia...